sheet anchor

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Yet, Jane — Tomalin calls her “the true heroine of this story” — remained the sheet anchor of his life, as well as his typist.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021

In summer he manages his two dairy farms, calls them "a sheet anchor against inflation."

From Time Magazine Archive

But Tom knew that I had taken the will; that I had deprived him of his sheet anchor.

From Seek and Find or The Adventures of a Smart Boy by Optic, Oliver

Feeble as he had been, yet he had always earned something, and had indeed been their sheet anchor.

From Ditte: Girl Alive! by Nexø, Martin Andersen

Gwen's one sheet anchor of hope, to which she clung in a kind of desperation, was the thought of the postal orders that Grannie and Aunt Violet almost invariably sent at Christmas.

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley